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'Not just Giulio Regeni': hundreds have died in Egyptian custody, says report
Egitto, report sui ‘Giulio Regeni egiziani’: 1058 morti nelle mani dello Stato nell’epoca al-Sisi. La maggior parte per torture e mancate cure
Saudi, Egyptian crackdowns signal collision with Biden agenda
![Ramy Shaath (L) [AmnestyAR/Twitter, Zyad El-Elaimy (R) [haythamabokhal1/Twitter]](https://www.cfjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Rami-and-Ziyad-1-e1626280673195.jpeg "Rami-and-Ziyad")
Egypt: Zyad Elelaimy and Ramy Shaath’s inclusion on the ‘Terrorist List’ is a shameful outcome of a politicized judiciary
This is also available in: العربية (Arabic) متوفر ايضا باللغةYesterday July 14, the Court of Cassation rejected the appeals of human rights defenders Zyad Elelaimy, Ramy Shaath, and eleven others regarding their inclusion on the ‘Terrorist List’ for a period of five years, an appalling miscarriage of justice denounced by the signatory human rights organizations […]
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Egypt: On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, First Step to Combating Torture is Accountability
This is also available in: العربية (Arabic) متوفر ايضا باللغةCoinciding with the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the undersigned independent human rights organizations condemn the Egyptian government’s systematic practice of torture against prisoners in the country. The undersigned declare their full solidarity with victims of torture and enforced disappearance in Egypt, and […]
Egypt: President Sisi must order immediate release of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, sentenced to four years in prison
This is also available in: العربية (Arabic) متوفر ايضا باللغةThe undersigned rights organizations condemn the sentencing of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to four years in prison, on 22 June, by the Emergency Supreme State Security Court in Case no. 774 of 2021[1]. The verdict, which cannot be appealed, also included a fine of LE500, and […]
Egypt’s Law 71: An unconstitutional step designed to expand the state’s grip on information
This is also available in: العربية (Arabic) متوفر ايضا باللغةThe undersigned organizations condemn Egypt’s issuing of Law No. 71 of 2021, amending some provisions of the Penal Code, published in the Official Gazette on June 13, 2021, as yet another step in the state’s systematic attempts to obliterate truth and control information. The law is […]
Egypt: In solidarity with Hossam Bahgat, state security targeting of human rights defenders must end
This is also available in: العربية (Arabic) متوفر ايضا باللغةThe undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Public Prosecution’s summoning of prominent human rights defender Hossam Bahgat, the founding executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), for investigation in a new case, no. 35 of 2020. Requested by the acting head of the […]
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Egypt: Moratorium on executions is imperative as unjust death sentence upheld in Rabaa Dispersal Case
This is also available in: العربية (Arabic) متوفر ايضا باللغةThe undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Court of Cassation’s 14 June verdict upholding the death sentence against twelve leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Case no. 2985 of 2015, known as the Rabaa Dispersal Case. The organizations demand an immediate moratorium on capital punishment in […]
![Ahmed al-Tohamy Abdel-Hay [Twitter]](https://www.cfjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/-تهامي-عبدالحي-e1622711590656.jpeg "احمد تهامي عبدالحي")
One year on since he was held in pretrial detention: Human rights organizations call for the release of academic Ahmed al-Tohamy
This is also available in: العربية (Arabic) متوفر ايضا باللغةThe undersigned organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to release Ahmed al-Tohamy Abdel-Hay, an assistant professor of political science at the Faculty of Economic Studies and Political Science at Alexandria University, who has been held in pretrial detention for a year in Case No. 649 of […]
Egypt: Hope Coalition detainees must be immediately released, after nearly two years of wrongful imprisonment
This is also available in: العربية (Arabic) متوفر ايضا باللغةThe undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of those detained in the Hope Coalition case (case no. 930 of 2019) and for the dismissal of all charges against them. As the two-year maximum lawful duration of their pretrial detention approaches, the signatory organizations are concerned […]
CFJ spokeswoman: Regeni’s case reflects the violations committed against Egypt’s society as a whole
This is also available in: العربية (Arabic) متوفر ايضا باللغةNews briefing Translated and edited by: The Committee for Justice Geneva, May 30, 2021 The spokeswoman for the Committee for Justice (CFJ), Yasmine Hajar, said that the Regeni case reflects the systematic violations of human rights committed by the Egyptian authorities against the entire society, whether foreigners or […]
Will Egypt compete for the world’s worst executioner in 2021?
This is also available in: العربية (Arabic) متوفر ايضا باللغةJoint statement, April 30, 2021 The Campaign to Stop the Death Penalty in Egypt and the undersigned human rights organizations strongly condemn and categorically reject the Egyptian government’s exapnsion of the implementation of the death penalty, with new reports indicating that the Prisons Authority in Wadi […]